It seems that the tests are all over the place.

Question

Your article says: "In most places El Pretérito Indefinido will be used with "nunca" and "siempre" and even with time expressions which have a connection to the present, such as: hoy, este mes, este año, esta noche, esta mañana, esta semana..."

On a quiz, I used the indefinido in a question with a "time expression which has a connection to the present" (i.e. "hoy") and got the question wrong-- it was corrected to the perfecto.

Is there something wrong with what I did? Are the quizes looking for peninsular or latin american answers?

Answer

Hola Elias Could you tell us which test you did so we can check? Which day was it? I checked your last tests but I can't see anything marked as incorrect. Saludos

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It seems to me that the "lesson" is much ado about nothing much and that, in fact, the choice of verb form is optional to the speaker.